Topic started by sarah (@ saturn5.sun.com) on Fri Nov 2 00:01:33 .
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Can somebody post recipe for the tasty "Kuzha puttu"

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• From: Ramadas (@ globalb3.citicorp.com) on: Sat Dec 8 19:18:45
  
  So long from Nov 2 and nobody came to help?
  Soak rice in water for a few hours. Take and dry by spreading on cloth. When it is almost fully dry, powder it in blender. Heat it by constant stirring on a kadaai, in slow heat. When the typical flavour comes take out and cool. Dissolve enough salt in water (two teaspoons for a cup).
  Add water slowly into the powder and knead with fingers, until the flour starts rolling into small b-alls. Be careful here.. no too much water. Just when the flour stars rolling up stop. I hope you have the "Kuzhaai apparatus" for making puttu. It is vessel to hold water fitted with a cylinderical tube and holed cap on the cap. (One of my friends in SaudiArabia got caught at Riyadh airport customs, he was carrying it from India; they thought it was an apparatus to distill alcohol!!!). The tube has a holed disc at the bottom to prevent flour from falling into the boiling water. Place the disc in properly, and fill the cylinder with this flour, interspersed with grated coconut (two spoons of grated coconut for every handful of flour). Fill the boiler vessel at the bottom with half water. Fit the cylinder on to the boiler and boil the water. Steam will come out of the top cap. After about 10 mts of low-heat cooking, take out the apparatus and dismantle the cylinder. Push out the puttu from the bottom of the cylinder with a long appalam needle or handle of long ladle. The best to go with Puttu is Kadali curry, made of mookku kadali (channa). I will post that afterward. Puttu is a regular breakfast for most Keralites, much to the amusement of Tamilians. In Tamilnadu it is mainly traditionally made for the "Puberty ceremony" (ManjalNeeraattu Vizha) of young girls!!!
  
  
• From: Ramadas (@ globalb9.citicorp.com) on: Sat Dec 8 19:21:45
  
  Typo error. It is "kadalai curry" to go with Puttu. "Mookku Kadalai".
  
  
• From: Sarah (@ phantom.pr.sun.com) on: Tue Dec 11 03:28:30
  
  thanks a lot
  
  

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